Tangible Benefits Or Token Gestures: Does Bwindi Impenetrable National Park's Long Established Multiple Use Programme Benefit The Poor?

Trade and use of Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has often been suggested as a means through which forest dependent people can improve their livelihoods to overcome poverty. Many projects have indeed promoted trade and use of NTFPs as a means of achieving development and conservation goals. One of the earliest large-scale initiatives to explore this was the Bwindi’s Multiple Use programme (MUP)